Vurberk () is a settlement in the
Municipality of Duplek
The Municipality of Duplek (; sl, Občina Duplek) is a small municipality in northeastern Slovenia. Its seat is Spodnji Duplek. The municipality lies on the left bank of the Drava River on the northwestern edge of the Slovene Hills ( sl, Slove ...
in northeastern
Slovenia
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. It lies on the left bank of the
on the southwestern edge of the
Slovene Hills
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( sl, Slovenske gorice), southeast of
Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of
Styria. The municipality is now included in the
Drava Statistical Region.
Name
The name of the settlement was changed from ''Vumpah'' to ''Vurberk'' in 1982. The Slovene name ''Vumpah'' is derived from German ''Wurmbach'' and was first attested as such in 1496.
[Kos, Dušan. 2006. ''In Burg und Stadt: spätmittelalterlicher Adel in Krain und Untersteiermark''. Vienna: Oldenbourg, pp. 503, 508, 683.] The Slovene name ''Vurberk'' originally referred to the castle above the village and is derived from German ''Wurmberg''.
Vurberk Castle, destroyed in 1945, was first mentioned in 1244 as ''Wuermwerg''.
Church
The local
parish church
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, built on a hill east of the village, next to a small castle, is dedicated to the
Assumption of Mary
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and belongs to the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor ( la, Archidioecesis Mariborensis, sl, Nadškofija Maribor) is an archdiocese located in the city of Maribor in Slovenia.
History
* 1859 : Maribor (then Marburg) became the see of the Diocese of Lavant
...
. It is a
Baroque building from 1776.
Slovenian Ministry of Culture register of national heritage
reference number ešd 3510
References
External links
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Vurberk at Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Duplek
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